New AI integrations, including ChatGPT for Excel and Microsoft Copilot Agent Mode, are transforming how finance professionals build, audit, and optimize spreadsheet models. These tools can automate ...

Lies, damn lies and statistics. Occasionally I get the impression that some engineers feel we’ve just taken that step beyond statistics in our ESL modeling. In a recent discussion I was very pointedly ...

Here are some best practices that have worked well for me in creating models to support decision-making: ...

The rapid expansion of generative AI is changing the face of technology. For the first time, the words, images, and even videos appearing online may be the product not of humans but of a sophisticated ...

Researchers at Microsoft Corp. today released details of an experimental artificial intelligence model called SpreadsheetLLM, and as the name suggests, it’s designed to work with spreadsheets such as ...

Cutting corners: Spreadsheets are a staple of so many jobs and business fields that it is almost impossible to quantify their economic value. People adept with this tool are in high demand and often ...

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When a decision is required, a manager typically begins by making certain assumptions about the environment in which the decision will be carried out. Such assumptions might involve, for example, the ...